Saturday, July 19, 2008

Progressive Dinners

I was recently reminded that I talk about food a lot. I guess it's true. Here goes again...

Thursday night when I got home Matt was ready to be out of the apartment away from his papers so we headed to BU's campus to exercise and then had a little progressive dinner. There are two small downtown places we enjoy eating in, but always have a hard time deciding where to go. Don't know why we hadn't thought of it before, but this time we stopped in Terriyaki Park for our appetizer of edimamme and sushi rolls. Then headed nextdoor to Wing Stop for terriyaki flavored wings and french fries. Yum!

We had no intention of doing it again the next night, but... I've been having a hard time finding a place to have Matt's graduation party (Lord willing 10 months away) so we figured the best way to do research was to be restaurant patrons. Friday night we started off at Gratziano's Italian restaurant downtown for Cajun Chicken Pasta & Portobello Raviolli. They were a no-go for the party, so we moved on. Dessert was at the Elite Grill on the Circle and my satisfied comment is that I've never had to take my shared dessert home in a to-go box. Their chocolate cake was scrumptious & HUGE! They too were a no-go for the party. Darn. Though we knew it wouldn't hold potential for a graduation luncheon, we were having a ball so we headed back downtown to Crickett's for a little night-cap. There we had a surprisingly enjoyable conversation about the election, politics, and weaning ourselves off foreign oil dependancy. It was a fun splurge, but it's back to Bagel Bites & canned soup for the rest of the weekend :o)

2 comments:

Peg said...

Tummies are important now aren't they? Sushi???? OMG!!!!! You are some brave kids! Keeping my fingers crossed for the 10 countdown too. Only 300 more days!!! Less than a year...yipee. I do wonder if Matt is more excited than we are? I imagine he is. Love reading the blog. Have a wonderful upcoming week. Love, MIL

Sarah Grace said...

So, are you planning the grad. luncheon for family, friends, who? I like your plan of trying out places to eat for that purpose. Oh how I love to go out to eat, and especially try new places.

To answer your question about castor oil...I looked it up and it has several different, weird, uses. One main use is to add flavoring to food (candy). It can also be used as a laxative. I will not be trying that...